Check-hook for harness



(No Model.)

G. W. FISH.

v CHECK HOOK FOR HARNESS. No. 270,406. Patented Jan. 9,1883.

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GEORGE WV. FISH, OF PECATONIOA, ILLINOIS.

CHECK-HOOK FOR HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270.406, dated January 9, 1883,

Application filed May 15,1882. (No model.) v

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, GEORGE V. FISH, a citizen of the United States, residing in Pecatonica, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful \Vatering or Check Hook, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to themetallic trimmings or mountings employed in the manufacture of harness; but more particularly to that-portion ot' the trimmings known as the watering or check hook employed in a harness to receive the check-rein of the bridle.

The object of this'invention is to produce a reliable check-hook by which the operation of checking and uochecking may be rendered less difficult. To this end I have designed anti constructed the checkbook represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is an isometrical representation of a check-hook embodt ing my invention. Fig. 2 is also an isometrical representation of my improved checkhook in its open position to receive the check-rein. Fig. 3 is a side elevation with the lever in its forward open position, and a portion of one of the curved arms broken away to show the holding-sprin Fig.

4 is also an elevation with the lever-arm in its rear closed position, and a portion of one of the curved arms broken away to show the holding-sprin As represented in the accompanying drawings, my improved check-hook is composed of two parts, a base portion and a pivoted lever portion.

The base portion of my improved checkltook consists ut the bar or plate-like portion portion of my improved check hook.

The lever portion of my improved checkhook consists ofthe forward portion, B, which, in this instance, is produced in circular iorm, having a diameter substantially the same as the diameter of the circle of the base portion, and this circle of the lever portion embraces about three-fourths of a cotnplete circle. Its rear portion consists of a lever-arm, (1, springing in a tangent from the upper rear surlace of the ring portion B of the lever. The forward arm, 0, of the circttlar portion B of the lever is rectangular in section, and is of suitable dimensions to enter the slot between the curved arms 0, and is pivoted at It to their upper end portions in such a manner that the free end of its lever-arm may be turned forward, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

At t is represented a spring fixed to the base portion of the hook, at the junction of the curved arms therewith, in such a manner that its free end will enter the slot between the curved artns to receive the free end of the forward arm, e, of the lever portion when closed, operating to hold it in its closed position to prevent accidental disp acement.

In the use ofmy improved check-hook when mounted on the harness, its pivoted lever portion is first turned lll its forward open position, as shown in I igs. 2 and 3. The rein is then placed in the open ring of the lever,

which is turned into its'closetl position, which movement will carry the rein over the hook arms of the base portion and below the pivot or fulcrum connection of the lever with the hook-arms of the base portion, when the rein will engage the lower forward. arm of the lever portion below its fttlcrutn and operate to hold the lever in its closed position.

To disengage the rein trom the check-hook the free rear arm of the lever is turned forward to its lit-st position, which movement will carry the rein over the hook-arms ot the base portion and permit it to slip or be lifted from J AooB BEHEL, A. 0. BEHEL. 

